Conventional Correspondence

Conventional Correspondence

Author: Willemijn Ruberg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-09-09

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9004209735

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Describing the epistolary practices of the Dutch elite in the period 1770-1850, this book shows how cultural ideals of sincerity, individuality and naturalness influenced the style and contents of letters and argues for the vital importance of correspondence to the performance of class, gender and familial identities.


Goose-Quill Papers (Classic Reprint)

Goose-Quill Papers (Classic Reprint)

Author: Louise Imogen Guiney

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781330514627

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Excerpt from Goose-Quill Papers For the sake of an apple Atalanta lost her nigh-won victory; and that other apple, thrown for the fairest, moved all Olympus into discord. Bragi, the north-god, and his peers renewed their youth with one touch of its cool juices. Dragons circled it in the enchanted garden; "the daughters three" stood about it in a sacred ring, and none but Hercules was its captor. The renascent marbles of the Greeks are dug out of earth, - "Praxitelean shapes!" - with its rounded beauty yet in their outstretched hands. What a superb mythologic pedigree! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.